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loft

[lawft, loft] / lɔft, lɒft /
NOUN
room on upper floor
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Co-founders and partners Lena Martin and Mandolin Burns graduated from CalArts, and in their search for a place to live, they found a loft in the Arts District where they could potentially perform.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

One of the photographs shows a Dyson SV12 vacuum valued at £499.99, found in what appears to be the loft of the Glasgow home.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

By then, we lived in a rundown Manhattan loft.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

They picked up a 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom loft in 2006 for $1.3 million.

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

She raced up to the loft and put it gently under her pillow.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

Rec centers were revamped with climbing walls and lazy rivers; dorms gave way to apartment lofts with expansive lounges; campus coffee bars were established with national brands.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Davis took this approach in the three-story atrium of his Calle del Sierra Residence in Stinson Beach, which is visually connected on all levels, showcasing exposed timber trusses and open lofts reachable via intricate ladders.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2025

But fear not, Apex isn’t just hanging out in one of Griffin’s lofts, overseeing his nightly buffet of caviar and gold-leafed Pringles.

From Slate Dec. 13, 2024

Stewart is wont to drop deep knowledge, whether he’s pointing out the sites of bygone jazz lofts in NoHo or spontaneously unpacking a Ravel score at the New School, where he is an adjunct professor.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2024

As at his own wharf, one side was built up solidly with counting houses, warehouses, sail lofts, stores.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He lofted Foulkes over long-off for six, then took another maximum from a sweep at Smith.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

It was a familiar sight: Caitlin Clark stepped to her left, paused and lofted a right-handed layup.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2026

“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 8, 2026

Mendes-Flohr persuasively reads these letters as the site where theology isn’t lofted above desire but tested within it.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

The truly daring, however, gamely climbed into a rattan gondola, felt hats or straw bowlers grasped tightly in hand as a hot-air balloon lofted them skyward.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Touted for years by Musk as the key to taking humans to Mars, SpaceX is now looking to show that Starship can work, including by lofting the company’s own satellites into orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

Oviedo gave away a poor second goal after 57 minutes, with Raphinha running on to an undercooked back-pass from David Costas and lofting the ball over Oviedo goalkeeper Aaron Escandell.

From Barron's Jan. 25, 2026

What about Teoscar Hernández lofting a three-run homer over the wall in right-center field to silence the notoriously hostile crowd at Citizens Bank Park?

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2025

England gave Southee his second guard of honour of the match, his quest to add to his 98 career sixes ended by lofting Bethell to long-on.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2024

The mashie is meant to loft, and it is practically impossible to play a long shot with it without lofting the ball very much and exposing it to all the wind that there is about.

From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon




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